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Families covered: Brooke of Colebrooke, Brooke of Donegal

                               
Sir Basil Brooke, Governor of Donegal (b 1567, d 1633)
m. Anne Leycester (d 1656, dau of Laurence Leycester of Chester son of Sir Ralph of Toft)
1. Sir Henry Brooke of Brookeborough, Sheriff of Fermanagh, Governor of Donegal (d 1671)
  m1. Elizabeth Wynter (dau of John Wynter of Dyrham)
  A. Basil Brooke of Donegal (d 1692) ancestor of Brookes of Donegal
  B. Wynter Brooke
  m2. Elizabeth Dowcra (dau of Henry, Lord Dowcra)
C. George Brooke
  m. (1667) Elizabeth Whitechurch
  i. Elizabeth Brooke
  m. Joseph Whitechurch
  ii.+ other issue - Dowcra (dsp 1731, Major), Theodore (d 1703)
  D. Henry Brooke
  m3. (1652) Anne St. George (d 1685, dau of Sir George St. George of Carrickdrumruisk)
E. Thomas Brooke of Colebrooke (bur 23.02.1696)
  m. Catherine Cole (d 1699, dau of Sir John Cole, Bart)
  i. Henry Brooke of Colebrooke, Sheriff then Governor of Fermanagh (bur 17.07.1761)
  m. (29.03.1711) Lettice Burton (d 1763, dau of Benjamin Burton, Lord Mayor of Dublin)
  a. Thomas Brooke
  b. Sir Arthur Brooke, Bart 'of Colebrooke' (d 07.03.1785)
  m. (06.08.1711?) Margaret Fortescue (d 22.09.1756, dau of Thomas Fortescue of Reynold's Town)
  (1) Henry Brooke (dvp young)
  (2) Selina Brooke
  m. (24.04.1769) Thomas, 1st Viscount de Vesci (d 13.10.1804)
(3) Letitia Charlotte Brooke
  m. (19.07.1774) Sir John Parnell, 2nd Bart (d 05.12.1801)
  c. Francis Brooke of Whitbrooke (d 1800)
  m. (24.06.1765) Hannah Prittie (d 06.1819, dau of Henry Prittie of Dunalley)
  (1) Sir Henry Brooke, 1st Bart of Colebrooke (b 30.05.1770, d 24.03.1834)
  m. (1792) Harriet Butler (dau of Hon. John Butler of Lanesborough family)
  (A) Sir Arthur Brinsley Brooke, 2nd Bart of Colebrooke (b 1797, d 21.11.1854, 3rd son) had issue
  m. (15.12.1841) Julia Henrietta Anson (d 27.12.1886, dau of Gen. Sir George Anson)
(B) Butler Brooke (b 1798, dsp 14.11.1869, rector of Ahavea)
  m. (1834) Letitia Jane Archdale (dau of Edward Archdale of Riversdale)
  (C) Edward Basil Brooke (b 1799, dsp 01.12.1868, Major General, CIC West Indies)
  m. Caroline Henchy (dau of P. Fitzgibbon Henchy)
  (D) Richard Brooke, later Howard-Brooke of Castle Howard (b 1801, d 06.04.1877) had issue
  m. (03.06.1837) Frances Caroline Hamilton (d 18.09.1876, sister of James Hans Hamilton of Abbotstown)
(E) George Augustus Frederick Brooke of Ashbrooke (b 1805, d 20.02.1874, 8th son) had issue
  m. (25.04.1833) Arabella Georgiana Hastings (d 29.01.1899, dau of Hans Francis Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon)
  (F) Maria Brooke (d 18.07.1838)
  m. (1817) William D'Arcy Irvine of Castle Irvine (d 23.06.1857)
  (G) Harriet Elizabeth Brooke (d 1879)
  m. (1845) Guy Percival L'Estrange (rector of Rathangan)
  (H)+ other issue - Francis (b 1794, d Waterloo 1815), Henry (dvp young), Thomas (b 1803)
(2) Francis Brooke (dsp, Lt. Colonel)
  m. Jane Burdett (dau of George Burdett of Queen's Co.)
  (3) Sir Arthur Brooke (d 26.07.1843, Lt. General) had issue
  m. Marianne Sneyd (d 14.11.1846, dau of Rev. William Sneyd)
  (4) Thomas Brooke (dsp 10.01.1854, rector of Urglin)
  m. (11.1844) Anne Elizabeth Henry (dau of Hugh Henry of Lodge Park)
(5) Richard Prittie Brooke (d 12.12.1836) had issue
  m. Elizabeth Call (dau of Col. Thomas Call, cousin of Sir John, Bart)
  (6) George Frederick Brooke of Summerton House and Coolgreany, Sheriff of Dublin (d 05.11.1865) had issue
  m. (1814) Jane Grace (d 28.12.1825, dau of Richard Grace of Boley by Jane Evans)
  (7) Letitia Deborah (or Sarah) Brooke
  m. Robert Howard of Castle Howard (dsp)
  (8) Anna Maria Brooke (d 11.08.1858)
  m. James Agnew Webster of Ashfield (Rev.)
  (A) Letitia Webster (b c1804, d 04.01.1885) probably of this generation
  m. (10.10.1833) Richard Hussey Vivian, 1st Lord Vivian of Truro (b 28.07.1775, d 20.08.1842)
(9) Elizabeth Brooke
  m. (1809) William Henry Carter of Castle Martin
  (10) Selina Brooke
  (11) Caroline Brooke
  m. John Trant (son of Dominick of Dovea by sister of John, Earl of Clare)
  (12) Harriet Brooke (d 01.1858)
  m. (1834) Hon. Robert Leeson (b 18.05.1773, d 1850)
  d. Lettice Brooke
  m. (18.05.1740) Robert Gore of Woodford
  e. Grace Brooke
  m. James (John) Bateman of Callow
  f. Mary Brooke
  m. Rev. Henry Cole of Brookville
g. Anne Brooke (dsp)
  m. Robert Persse of Roxborough
  ii. Mary Brooke probably the Mary who married ...
  m. Guy Carleton of Rossfad (d 1731)
  iii.+ other issue - Arthur, Anne
  F. Catherine Brooke
  m. Charles Hamilton of Cavan
  G. Elizabeth Brooke (d 28.12.1721)
  m. Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne (b 1642, d 16.09.1723)
  H. Anne Brooke
  m. Kilner Brazier (Colonel)
  I.+ other issue - Richard (d 1723, had issue, Major), Oliver (dsp 1739, Colonel)
2. Anne Brooke
  m. Richard Crofton of Lisnaderne
3. Elizabeth Brooke
  m. Thomas Chambers of Ardgreagh

Main source(s): BP1934 (Brooke of Colebrooke)
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